Hizbollah is coming to an American border near you

Watch out, Americans, terrorists are coming! A Republican Congresswoman has warned that Hizbullah terrorists, hooked up with Mexican drug cartels, may be planning ”Israel-like bombings” against customs officials or National Guard units on the U.S. border.

Punishing Palestinian independence

Hamas leader in Gaza, Mahmoud Zahar, doesn’t want his territory to become like another US-backed wasteland, Afghanistan: The Hamas co-founder was bitterly critical of Western policy towards Hamas and Gaza over the four and half years since the Islamic faction won the last Palestinian elections. “Why did the Western people boycott Hamas after the election?”…

The noble war in Afghanistan is against 100 people?

Let me get this straight. Tens of thousands of Western troops are fighting in Afghanistan because of this or are we actually occupying the country for another reason altogether? In an EXCLUSIVE interview on “This Week,” CIA Director Leon Panetta told host Jake Tapper that there were “at most” only 50-100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.…

Can we have a mature discussion about the war in Afghanistan?

An aide to General Stanley McChrystal (currently in the firing line for making disparaging comments about Barack Obama over Afghanistan) tells journalist Michael Hastings that, “if Americans pulled back and started paying attention to this war, it would become even less popular.” This story isn’t about McChrystal’s criticisms but about the futile war in Afghanistan…

Only US-friendly terror groups are welcome

The latest decision by the US Supreme Court seems highly problematic, not least because America backs terrorists group every day (hello Afghanistan and Iraq, as two recent examples) yet wants to tell its citizens that they can only back groups that speak in lovely, warming tones about the super-power: The US supreme court has upheld…

Killing civilians in Colombia for hard, US-provided cash

Beware any rogue nation that is warmly embraced by Washington in its “war on drugs”: Many men have been disappearing – only for families to find out the army had shot them When Luz Marina Bernal’s 26-year old son went missing in February 2008, she immediately raised the alarm. Fair Leonardo Porras Bernal had a…

Colombo wants to teach the world how to kill civilians and smile

I look forward to Sri Lankan hacks visiting Israel and teaching them the ways to defeat “terrorism” (bombing hospitals and refugee camps will come as second nature to them both): A strong leadership and a disciplined military are the keys in wiping out separatist movements that have resorted to terrorism in our country, the Sri…

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